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President Trump told reporters to “stay tuned” during his meeting Thursday with the South Korean president, declining to elaborate on remarks he made earlier about wanting to impose more sanctions against North Korea for its weapons program.

Asked about increasing the penalties on President Kim Jong Un’s regime, Trump said, “We will see.”

“But we’re making a lot of progress in a lot of different ways. Stay tuned,” he said during the meeting in New York with South Korean leader Moon Jae-in.

Earlier in the morning, Trump put Pyongyang on notice.

“We will be putting more sanctions on North Korea,” he said while meeting with President Ashraf Ghani of Afghanistan, without elaborating.

In his speech before the United Nations General Assembly on Tuesday, Trump referred to Kim as “Rocket Man” and vowed the US would “destroy” the country if “it is forced to defend itself or its allies.”

Moon said he was “very satisfied” with how Trump was handling the escalating tensions with North Korea.

“The United States has responded firmly,” he said.

The UN Security Council earlier this month imposed another round of sanctions against Kim’s government that place severe restrictions on its imports of oil and textiles for detonating a nuclear device.